Event
- Event ID
- 421
- Quality
- Description
A trailer-tractor transporting hydrogen cylinders veered off the road to the right at around for unclear reasons and eventually tipped over to the left. Part of the 4,000 cubic meters of hydrogen caught fire.
The fire department extinguished the vehicle with foam.
The highway remained closed in both direction for the duration of the firefighting intervention and the following recovery of the vehicle.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- fire
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Date
- Component involved
- valve (generic)
- Failure mode
- rupture & ignition
- Initiating cause
- impact, rollover, crash
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING CAUSE was a traffic accident. In absence of information on drivers and driver behaviours, the ROOT CAUSE can be attributed generically to a human error (wrong manoeuvre).
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2017
Facility
- Application
- Hydrogen transport and distribution
- Sub-application
- CGH2 tube trailer
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
cylinders
- Process temperature range [C]
- ambient temperature (-50°C to +50°C)
- Process pressure range [MPa]
- medium to high pressure (10 to 50 MPa)
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- highway or similar
- Operational condition
- Pre-event occurrences
[Note of the validator: The mass of hydrogen was calculated by assuming that the value of 4000 cubic metre provided by the source related to standard condition].
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 1
- Post-event summary
The driver was slightly injured . He was taken to hospital for treatment.
- Emergency action
The highway was closed in both directions.
The fire department extinguished the vehicle with foam
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 330
- Release temperature [°C]
- 25
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- News
- Reference & weblink
Online news of Oberberg-heute
http://www.oberberg-heute.de/?act=vp&cid=1&pid=9138
(accessed December 2024)Online news of Oberberg-heute + pictures
http://www.oberberg-heute.de/?act=vp&cid=1&pid=9138
(accessed December 2024)
